The Pew Research Center found that 71% of Russians identified as Orthodox If you knew Russia a bit, only a little bit, you would know, how ridiculous this statement is. There's a joke about a gentleman who believed everything what was written. And the punch line is? Sorry, ladies and children liste...

I have no problem with a photo of a phalanx of prostrate muslims in a Moscow street. But when standard sources suggests that Russian-Orthodox Christians outnumber muslims in Russia by a factor of 6-7, your claim that islam is their biggest religion stretches credulity. I get that most nominally Rus...

I may agree with Dawkins that religion is degrading for morals and ethics. It serves to relieve one from the sense of guilt by submitting it to some artificial evaluation and compensation process, instead of resorting to one's own deeply-rooted in our doubting nature sense of good and bad, which ar...

True, he is a bit chaotic but he still proves something. In the God Delusion he shows how natural is to organize your thoughts around the notion of God. It's a great book, everybody should read it. Of course, I know he wanted to prove something else. But as the great American scientist Wernher von B...

You are tilting at newspapers today. I first assumed you meant we should just believe in what the government tells us, but now you say we should listen for God’s word instead? I think not. You know, existence of God is not certain, so we do not know if He lies or not. Existence of politicians and j...

I'd say that for the last couple of decades (at least) you would find me pretty much aligned with the FT and the Economist. No magic there, they just seem to express views that are based on actual data and a somewhat enlightened world view. :D Are you really thinking that journalists are able to ...